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Bereaved The last nephew has spoken his eulogy: the minister leads a prayer then closes the fat book shrouded in a black binding. Against...

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This reader gets the ethos of the Moth: "  I could not help but root for The Moth." Hard Neighborhood for an Insect, Even A Death Head...

And Who Is The Elusive Seren One of my sadnesses is that I shall not be able to read this book again for the first time. But being a...

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